Additions to the knowledge of the digger wasp (Hymenoptera: Spheciformes: Crabronidae) fauna in the Fars Province of Iran

Abstract

The current paper presents new data on the distribution of 51 species of crabronid wasp (Hymenoptera: Spheciformes: Crabronidae) from the subfamilies Crabroninae (42 species of 15 genera and 5 tribes) and Pemphredoninae (9 species of 6 genera and two tribes) collected at 21 sampling sites in the Fars Province of Iran. Three species, Tachysphex nitidus (Spinola, 1806), Liris memnonius (F. Smith, 1856), and Spilomena mocsaryi Kohl, 1898 are newly added to the Iranian insect fauna. General distribution and Iranian localities are given for each species. The biogeographic affinities of the collected species are also discussed.

New data on the digger wasps fauna of families Pemphredonidae, Psenidae and Philanthidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Iran

“…The digger wasps (former family Crabronidae) in Fars and Hormozgan provinces in southern Iran have received increasing attention in recent years (Fallahzadeh et al, 2006(Fallahzadeh et al, , 2009(Fallahzadeh et al, , 2018Atbaei et al, 2015;Rezaei & Fallahzadeh, 2015;Schmid-Egger et al, 2016;Sadeghi et al, 2016Sadeghi et al, , 2018aSadeghi et al, , 2018bSadeghi et al, , 2019Khosroabadi et al, 2019). Before 2015, the number of known species from the Fars province was 28 (see Atbaei et al, 2015).…”

“…During the last two decades, numerous papers have been published on the fauna of Iranian digger wasps, the representatives are: Ebrahimi, 2000aEbrahimi, , 2000bEbrahimi, , 2005Ebrahimi, , 2008Ebrahimi, , 2014Dollfuss, 2006Dollfuss, , 2008Schmid-Egger, 2004, 2019Fallahzadeh et al, 2006Fallahzadeh et al, , 2009Fallahzadeh et al, , 2018Pulawski, 2007;Ghazi-Soltani et al, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2010cAtbaei et al, 2015;Rezaei & Fallahzadeh, 2015;Schmid-Egger et al, 2016;Sadeghi et al, 2016Sadeghi et al, , 2018aSadeghi et al, , 2018bSadeghi et al, , 2019Jahantigh et al, 2017;Khosroabadi et al, 2019). The main purpose of the present study was to increase our knowledge about the fauna of Iranian Pemphredonidae, Psenidae and Philanthidae in the Fars province.…”